This about enjoying life to the full with my lovely partner- I scream my head off here so I can pretend to be coping when I have to. MS has robbed my darling of the use of much of her body but has increased our determination to share our love to the full and get as much fun out this world as we can glean. Sometimes it all gets to much so I need to scream about it.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tom Leonard poem.

when the colonial oppressorwears the proxy badge of victimhood

when the state talks about democracyand boasts about democracyand busses in its votersfrom the 4 corners of the globe

when the possession of nationalityis a foot landing on an airport tarmacand the dispossessed festerin the camps of the dispossessed

when spokespersons for the state are good at explaining the current position in Englishbecause they are Englishand good at sounding Americanbecause they are American

and the natives are hopeless spokespersonswho speak in heavily accented Englishbecause they are not Englishwho don’t sound Americanbecause they are not American

they are foreignerson their native soiland they sound like foreignersbecause that’s all they areto the English, and to the Americansand to the incoming dispossessors

foreigners

statehood is right to armsstatehood is control of the air

and the state walls up the nativesthe state drives roads through their livelihoodthe state uproots their livelihood

statehood is tankstatehood is bulldozer of homes

state killing is not killingstate killing is justifiable contextstate killing is the operation of justice

stateless killing is simply killingstateless killing is never contextstateless killing is motiveless evil

we are the stateyou are the stateless

the battle is good versus evil what more history do you need?

to accuse the state of oppressionis genocide

to accuse the state of racismis genocide

to accuse the state of colonial expansionis genocide

no one wants to be accused of genocidemuch better to turn a blind eye

but the state is oppressivebut the state is racistbut the state is intent on colonial expansion

and the state colonises the pastthe state says its people are the single victims of history

yet many are the victims of historyno single people has precedence

we inherit no victimhood from the murdered in the genocides of historywe Inherit no guilt from the murderers in the genocides of history

they are the deadwe are the living

who alone are responsible for our actionswho cannot forever blame our role as victims